You can get about 2Gb on a CD with the compressed loop filesystem, like Knoppix does.

A single Gentoo DVD is possible but DVDs are more expensive to produce, so its not good value for money. There are also at least two incompatible standards of DVD DIY, so it would have to be a mastered silver disk.

Ask LinuxFormat to give it away as a cover mount - Bootable Gentoo DVD. They have don it with other distros._________________Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Actually, I just realized I voted wrong. I have a bootable Gentoo LiveDVD (an old one, but nevertheless I have one) from one of the old linux magazines. I believe it was linux format, and I probably still have it around somewhere.

The iso9660 filesystem doesn't break until the volume size gets to 4Gb, then it starts to fracture rather than die. You can have files past this limit but not directories. Luckly, directories are all grouped at the start of the session (or disk, if its a single session disk)

Make yourself a boot floopy image file, collect together all the files you want on CD/DVD, put it together in the right order with the right names and give it a go.

I recommend RW media until you get it right_________________Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

if it IS possible, does anyone know a procedure how to make my own bootable DVD?

wouldnt the catalyst stuff the developers are working on be perfect for this

personaly i cant see the point of 4,7 gigs of programs to run in ram knoppix like cds are fine for error recovery, newbies trying it out etc but harddisks are cheap and the performance is so much better_________________Giay tay nam | Giay nam cao cap | Giay luoi

The Gentoo LiveCD (nostages) takes about 10% of a CD, mainly because it hasn't got X, KDE, GNOME and other space-hungry apps. The Official Gentoo LiveCD is good not only because it's a very stripped-down and functional system, but also because the download is rather small to download. That is more important to me than anything else._________________The md5sum of the above post is 06280ccd85ef9deb49c336e7945f4b5c

The Official Gentoo LiveCD is good not only because it's a very stripped-down and functional system, but also because the download is rather small to download. That is more important to me than anything else.

When it comes to download the image - I agree. But my original point is different.

We, Gentoo users, don't download the image of our OS (like RH users do) - instead, we build it. It means we install a bootstrap and tell the system what we want on it and the systsem will download what's necessary, compile it and install it.

In a similar way I see LiveDVD. I don't see it as a 4.7 GB image that you download and burn. You don't need it. Instead I can see a script that, being told what do you want on LiveDVD to be installed, would build and install it there.

I don't understand people who advise here "build it yourself". Yes I want to build it myself. But I need a guideline for it. Building DVD is already a bit different than a building of CD. Building a bootable DVD is absolutely diffeent thing. If you don't understand it then you needguidelines for it too. And that is my point.

I think that Gentoo community will benefit if we will have "HOWTO build bootable LiveDVD" guide. If it will (and it should) have a comlimentary script doing the final burning step - that will be appreciated by many people as I can see from this poll.

I encourage eveyone who has any usefull links, or any usefull advises, or any usefull scriptlets for building own bootable LiveDVD - drop it here. If I'll gother them enough to build it - I'll promise to publish it on "Docs and tricks" forum for everyone usage._________________"Lisp is a programmable programming language." - John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991

I don't understand people who advise here "build it yourself". Yes I want to build it myself. But I need a guideline for it. Building DVD is already a bit different than a building of CD. Building a bootable DVD is absolutely diffeent thing. If you don't understand it then you needguidelines for it too. And that is my point.

Not if you use and iso9660 filesystem on the DVD. then its just a big CD._________________Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

yeah i trieds to do my own one, this is what i did, i used winISO to open up the gentoo livecd iso image and just added about 2gb of pre compiled binaries i made. thats it i didnt mess with any setting ewtc..

at that was it it booted the gentoo boot screen cam up but when you press enter it failed on initrd?? no idea what to do now ?

this would be cool that way i could make pre compiled packages and place on live cd 4GB to play with as well

well. i have a bootable mandrake 9.2_rc2 dvd.
works quite well too. i got it from a linux magazine that i suscribe to.
of course, why use the bootable dvd? .. i gots me a gentoo

(i've thought about making a bootable custom gentoo dvd for about a year now.)
Im quite suprised that nobody has attempted atleast an "experimental" bootable dvd!
With all of the innovative people that run gentoo on a normal basis, and nobody has
yet to do this. c'mon people!

the iso9660 filesystem would do, but sheesh.. even 3ish gig of binaries would cut
a big portion out of the cake. (not to mention playing with the limits of the iso9660
filesystem and pushing 4+gig)

anyways, i hope something comes about this. its a great idea!
but better yet, what about something, like a knoppix-like enviroment.
where you have your favorite DE, and stuff.. running straight from dvd.
oh the possibilities

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Actually, it's 4.5 Gb's . The temporary solution I can think of now, is to boot the pc with a standard gentoo live cd and then switch to your custom made dvd. This way you don't have to worry about getting your dvd bootable. But if someone wants to write a how-to about making a bootable livedvd, by all means, go ahead!

Actually, I just realized I voted wrong. I have a bootable Gentoo LiveDVD (an old one, but nevertheless I have one) from one of the old linux magazines. I believe it was linux format, and I probably still have it around somewhere.

hmm this thread is quite old...
never stumbled over it. i am working for some time now (with long delays inbetween) on a gentoo based livedvd. currently it uses a 2.6.9 kernel with udev (hotplugging). at the moment development paused again. i need to adapt locations of the gl-libs to get opengl-update working (no 3d-accel for nvidia at the moment). my ibm t42 (ati mobile 7500 ) however starts with 3d-acceleration already